Ukraine said it took a Russian position using just drones and ground robots.
Zelenskyy said it was a wartime first, and no Ukrainian infantry was involved.
He said robots have done over 22,000 missions in three months, keeping many soldiers from harm.
Begun, the drone wars have
sudo make the Russians retreat
Dad said “Mario Kart is a waste of time, son.”
That’s General son to you, Dad.
Well, the future looks bright enough. We may work to death in captailist states, but at least robots will fight each other, so no need for soldiers.
…until one of the warring countries runs out of robots anyway. That’s when the real fun starts!
robots will fight each other, so no need for soldiers.
Ukrainian remote operators are killing Russian soldiers today.
In another few weeks, a Russian advance will take territory containing Ukrainian operators. At which point, well…
This can fill the void that Battlebots’ cancellation left behind.
One small step for man, one giant warning siren for mankind.
Yeah… I really don’t like the changes that the Russian Invasion of Ukraine are making to war.
Cheap Kamikaze drones, unmanned roving gun turrets, etc etc… Removing men on the ground feels like its gonna make it easier to pursue and lust for wars as these technologies continue to advance further and remove the human components.
What happens when it’s an occupying force? i.e. mainly around civilians.
It’s going to be a special kind of hell.
well said. No boots on the ground doesn’t seem to mean less wars, just more wars with less boots on ground.
Yep.
it doesnt mean less wars.
It just means more innocent/civilian suffering.
As always, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
things are going to get really weird
Looks more like that road is paved with Russian corpses.
Wait, I’m on the side of the robots for this one?
So… we got two ways to go. One the robot on robot wars end up wiping us all out by exhausting all or resources and of course killing civilians. Or we take to space and have the robot wars stay on earth. Mars at least I figure. For a few at least.
Or… send the robots to mars to fight…
Yeah, but the resources they want to fight over are on earth… for now. Humans will just have to keeping moving to stay out of the robots way.
I think I’ve seen this somewhere ….
The age of drone on drone violence will make war more palatable to citizens.
Possible. It does seem like drones fighting drones should mean less human casualties, which has both a humanitarian side and an escalation risk side.
Then again a lot of people have thought their weapons would make war less deadly, and been very wrong, including the case of WWI-era artillery.
They “accidentally” told the drones/robots to attack the schools and hospitals. “We would never do that on purpose”
“Well why were the terrorists using school children as human shields!”
I doubt it will ever stop
This, but also if you aren’t putting your soldiers at risk then war becomes more palatable (and thus more likely). For example, I doubt Trump would have attacked Iran if he had been quoted 1000+ American causalties in the first week.
I really, honestly hope you are right. Sadly, I think you are wrong. I’ve recently been exposed to the concepts of “human safari” and “drone siege” and they aren’t pretty. “Drone on drone” might be just the preamble of these.
No preamble, unfortunately. The Russians are doing these “human safaris”, which are, of course, clear as day war crimes, to train their drone pilots.
Also to terrorize and wear out the civilian population of course, which is the Russian way of war.
AI drones are coming along, but these won’t only be used on other drones or robots, that much we can know already.
Indeed, I meant that in a hypothetical “drone vs drone” war, after the drones win the attacks on civilians and sieges will most likely come after.
I do not mean it will be tolerable to be near. I mean citizens of nations who choose war will tolerate it more if their own soldiers are not dying in war. If war requires less people and more “stuff” to wage, citizens will feel less motivation to speak out against it. It will make waging war more of an option not less of one, if only equipment is being lost.
How long until inter-country conflicts are settled by robot battles and we’re basically living the plot of Robo Jox?
As hard as that shit goes, we will probably never see an age of human piloted robots.
Praise the Omnissiah!
Robot Wars was a documentary
crazy stuff, now twinks will win wars not 7 feet chuds
